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Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Apply by
August 21, 2026
Applicants
0
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Job Description
At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious mission: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.
More than 1/3 of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet. 10% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste and loss.
Through our marketplace app, we connect businesses that have unsold, surplus food, with consumers who can buy and enjoy it at ⅓ of retail value. We are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste. Alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.
We’re growing fast: Our community of 120 million registered users and 180,000 active partners across 20 countries, have together already saved over 500 million meals from going to waste
In 2023, Too Good To Go was recognised on Fortune's acclaimed 'Change the World' list, named as one of Deloitte's 'Best Managed Companies' and won a coveted 'Cultural Impact Award' at the annual Apple App Store Awards.
The Role
We are building a brand-new engineering hub in London, and we are looking for foundational Senior Backend Software Engineers to help us kick it off. This is a unique opportunity: you will be joining a completely new team, building a new hub from scratch, and working remotely from the rest of our global Tech organisation.
You'll be an integral part of this new product team, so you will help define, build, and deliver our product features. You will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with your team. Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver, and maintain an international top-class product, ensuring quality, maintainability, and sustainability.
As a senior member of this new team, you will serve as a technical anchor—taking full ownership of complex backend challenges, partnering closely with your Lead Engineer to set high quality standards, and helping guide mid-level engineers as the hub grows.
The Tech Stack
We have created a scalable Spring Boot Application running on Java 25 in Kubernetes, deployed in a multi-region setup in AWS. Developers are able to run a full development environment locally, which gives a great developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve our backend services and infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.
- Develop exciting new features for our customers and businesses who partner with us.
- Actively participate in your team’s agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability.
- Take on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.
- Take ownership of complex backend features end-to-end—driving efficient technical design, high test coverage, and smooth deployments in close collaboration with your Lead Engineer.
The ideal candidate
- A wealth of experience in Backend development with the Java ecosystem.
- Proven production experience with Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, Message System & GIT.
- Has worked with Domain Driven Design, and Clean, or Hexagonal Architecture.
- Knowledge of AWS services (SQS, SNS, S3…), ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with Restful APIs.
- Proven ability to break down ambiguous technical tasks into clean, production-ready code independently, while acting as a supportive mentor and reliable sounding board for mid-level engineers.
- Experience with building scalable solutions.
- Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team.
- Takes pride in writing quality code.
Our Values
- We Win Together
- We Raise the Bar
- We Keep It Simple
- We Build A Legacy
- We Care
### What we have to offer
- A rare opportunity to work in a social impact company (and certified B Corporation!) where you can see real and tangible impact in your role.
- Working alongside an international community of users, partners and 1,200+ colleagues across 20 countries that are on the same important mission.
- Personal and professional development opportunities in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
- An inclusive company culture where you can bring your authentic self to work
- A strong, values-driven team culture where we celebrate successes and socialise with colleagues that care.
### Benefits
WORK FLEXIBLY:
- Enjoy hybrid working from our great offices, at home or abroad.
- Extra parental leave and days off beyond local legislation and the option to take an extra week of unpaid leave
- Health insurance and pension plans.
- Additional days off for significant life events
CELEBRATE & SOCIALISE
- Regular social events like summer and winter parties.
- Coffee, snacks and fully-equipped kitchens.
- Get to know our community with a monthly free Surprise Bag
- Paid volunteer time through our Shareback volunteering programme
- Women in the Workplace, P.R.I.D.E., People of Colour and Functionally Diverse Employee Resource Groups
### How to apply
We take recruitment very seriously, so please carefully read everything we have written above. Please also check our website and international media in order to get a good overview of Too Good To Go.
Submit your CV and Cover letter in English.
Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. No CV or Cover Letter will be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging.
A Movement for Everyone
We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and evolve backend services and infrastructure to support growth.
- Develop new features for customers and business partners.
- Participate in agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and scalable products.
- Take ownership of complex backend features end-to-end, including technical design and deployment.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and set high-quality standards.
Skills Required
JavaSpring BootMySQLMessage SystemsGITDomain Driven DesignClean ArchitectureHexagonal ArchitectureAWSSQSSNSS3ElasticSearchRedisDockerKubernetesRESTful APIsMentoringProblem solvingCollaborationOwnershipCommunication
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Extra parental leave
- Health insurance
- Pension plans
- Additional days off for significant life events
- Regular social events
- Coffee, snacks and fully-equipped kitchens
- Monthly free Surprise Bag
- Paid volunteer time
- Employee Resource Groups
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